37chief
Well-known Member
- Location
- California
Any of you carry a fire extinguisher on your equipment. Maybe it's not too dry where some of you live, but here on the west coast it doesn't take much to get a fire started this time of the year, by a rock strike with a mower. Several big fires have been started this way. Then some idiot was burning weeds last week, and the fire got away from him. I have started three since I have been mowing. One was almost out of control. The others I stomped out. This was before I started carrying extinguishers I have a 2 1/2 gal water and a power for a tractor fire. I had a tractor fire, one time from a shorted wire in one of those places with years of accumulated dust and straw and diesel fuel. I had a extinguisher in my pickup, which was near by, or I would have watched my JD 5020 burn up. I have a spark arrestor on two of my tractors, but not one of them. I don't know how much good they do. Stan